Ryan Lindsey cutting up an AR-15 at Missouri Faith Voices event Tuesday afternoon at Brentwood Christian Church as a part of his work with the nonprofit Raw Tools. © Jordan Meier / Springfield News-Leader
Posted on 05/26/2024 5:57:13 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Christian activists will show people this Saturday how to turn weapons of violence into instruments of peace using a hammer − and some faith − to forge guns into garden tools.
The event, hosted by Delaware and Maryland churches belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is an effort to get people to think differently about guns and how to handle conflict without violence. The "Youtherans," young people who attend Lutheran churches in Delaware and Maryland, are also organizing this free event at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, north of Wilmington.
"It's to say that there's a different way," said the Rev. Zachary Wright, one of the organizers and pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church in North East, Maryland. "And it's to bring people together and to learn."
The event will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 501 Duncan Road in Fox Point.
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Project called RAWTools uses forge
Shane Claiborne, who lives in Philadelphia's Kensington section, will demonstrate on Saturday how a project called RAWTools uses a forge — similar to what a blacksmith would use to make horseshoes — to turn gun parts into garden and hand tools, jewelry and even crucifixes.
"RAWtools' mission to 'disarm hearts and forge peace' is driven by our ability to make a choice about the tools we use to navigate conflict," according to the organization's website. "As we lose more than 100 people a day to gun violence in the United States, it's becoming more and more clear that guns have no place in conflict resolution."
Through the organization's Sword to Plow program, people can donate their guns and receive a free garden tool created from that weapon.
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Ryan Lindsey cutting up an AR-15 at Missouri Faith Voices event Tuesday afternoon at Brentwood Christian Church as a part of his work with the nonprofit Raw Tools. © Jordan Meier / Springfield News-Leader
triple face palm
There are two type of people in the world. Those who have guns and those who dig.
Here is a good cartoon about ploughshares....
https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p/plowshare.asp
I don’t know what’s worse…the destruction of the firearm or the cringy-ness of this whole affair.
Disarm the sheep so they can be slaughtered
…or harvest corn.
I’d take an M1895 “potato digger” off their hands if they have one. Wouldn’t have to modify it at all.
I was with some church friends today believing a few elderly women. They were asking about learning to shoot guns.
We’re in Maryland.
These are Christians like Bruce Jenner is a girl.
Of course they wouldn’t think of doing that with their sex toys and dolls.
It’s not the Millennial Kingdom just yet. It’s not time to best your swords into plowshares.
Guns have to be destroyed in a certain fashion, I’d wager these morons are committing a felony by doing it in a haphazard manner.
THIS 🔝🔝🔝
Martyrs.
Joel 3:10
Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Luke 22:36
He can’t be more than 30.
I recommend these virtue signalers go to the heart of Gaza and provide a lesson to Hamas. Then they should go and educate Hezbollah followed by thew Taliban. I mean are they serious or are they virtue signaling in a completely safe environment? These people are absolutely cringeworthy.
One of my favorite garden tools is a .410. Works just fine on gophers.
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